Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter…then manifestation in the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aims possible to man on earth.
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Guide your child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
